Summary

The Toolkit includes teacher courses and lead programmes which relate directly to dimensions and elements of the Model for Great Teaching. Delivered online, our courses and programmes all incorporate structured collaboration with colleagues and activities to plan, implement and evaluate pedagogical approaches in your context.

For teachers:

A selection of eight-week courses enabling teachers to connect the most up-to-date research evidence on learning to principles they can apply in the classroom, before selecting and adapting individual teaching strategies to hone and use in their own practice.  

  1. Creating a supportive environment
  2. Maximising opportunity to learn
  3. Embedding
  4. Explaining
  5. Interacting
  6. Questioning
  7. Structuring

What is included in the sample?

Click on each course name to see the sample material

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    Teacher sample courses
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    D2: Creating a supportive environment
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    D3: Maximising opportunity to learn
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    D4.1: Structuring
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    D4.2: Explaining
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    D4.3: Questioning
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    D4.4: Interacting
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    D4.5: Embedding
  • Welcome to your free sample! The courses: Overview
  • Course summary Introduction to this Creating a supportive environment Course Creating a persona of compassionate consistency Avoiding negative emotions in interactions with students
  • Course summary The power of routines Ensuring rules and expectations are clearly understood and accepted by all Signalling awareness of what is happening in the classroom
  • Course summary Why do students remember some things, but not others? Using completion problems to remove scaffolding Sequencing using spaced practice to combat forgetting
  • Course summary Prepare students before introducing new ideas Connect new ideas to prior knowledge Introduction to scenario-based practice
  • Course summary The aims of questioning Questioning to assess students’ thinking: principles The power of testing
  • Course summary Feedback to teachers Using self-assessment as a tool to feed back to both teachers and students Productive levels of feedback in the classroom
  • Course summary Helping students learn ideas, develop connections and understanding Scaffolding learning using worked examples and completion problems The research underpinning interleaving